Help - the crew are not revolting but.....

[adarcy]

They are rebelling!

Scenario
2 crew, both co-owners, 1 is SWMBO. (Now you are getting the idea of the seriousness of this)
Boat Princess 45
Problem "We're too high up to get the buoys" "not getting any younger/more agile etc etc"
Proffered solution "We MUST get a smaller boat!"

HELP really needed rather than just wanted

My solution - going to SBS on Sunday AND

Does anybody have any good experiences with one of those 'thread it through a ring on the end of a stick thingies' ?? - one we tried kept falling off.

Already suggested a bigger hook on a longer pole - "not coordinated enough"
and throw a loop of rope over it - "too far and too heavy if you make a bit with chain in it, so it will float away anyway"

This is so serious that not only may the boat "have to go" but "and we may have to wait a year or so to get a smaller one".

I throw myself on the mercy of the BB community, there must be a solution that satisfies them (aha - the catch) OR

I/we'll BE BOATLESS

plead plead grovel grovel

yours miserably

Anthony

 

[markc]

Question - Does SWMBO stand on the bow to do the buoy thingy?

Assuming you say yes....I always run a long line from the bow along the decks to the aft cockpit and then SWMBO can stand in saftey while i bring boat alongside cockpit by the buoy. Once easily threaded, SWMBO simply walks up to the bow while I reverse and she makes fast. Always works fine. If I gave her one of those hooky things she'd only drop it in the drink!

M

http://www.geocities.com/jinto100/Jintopics.html

 

[dickh]

If it's for your permanent mooring, attach a small bouy with a long pole through it with a weight on the end so it floats upright, attach a flag to it so you know it's yours, when you come up to it you just pick up the buoy by the top of the stick and pull in your mooring strop. Very easy and cheap, make the stick to suit your freeboard.

dickh
I'd rather be sailing...

 

[EME]

Everyone is being much too practical . This is obviously a serious issue.

Option 1

Kill several birds with one stone and discuss early retirement in the Mediterranean sun during cold winter evenings. Can by a bigger boat there as trere are very few buoys and all moorings stern to so just walk on / walk off. Until then obviously have to keep hand in and so not worth changeing boat?

Option 2

Agree with her entirely but in interest of saving money for new hat/dress/party. Avoid costs of selling boat by keeping it.
Then employ cabin boy in white shorts to deliver Pimms and hook up whenever required. Thereby she gets to feel like Queen.

Option 3

uurrghh........agree to change curent model to someting more user friendly,
i.e. get divorce?

...I wanna boat please..

 

[Trevethan]

Tell her that she is right. Some money will have to spent to rectify the issue.

Buy longer boat hook for £15
Spend remaining thousands on new toys.

The other alternative... radical as it sounds... its almost heretical... you could let her her drive and pick up the buoy yourself?

I'd buy a longer boat hook meself... or maybe a new wife!

Regads,

Nick

 

[hlb]

Re: Tutt\'s Patented Rope Trick

Do as mark says. Swmbo. Can stand on bathing platform. Or in aft cockpit. This is how we've done it for years. First but long rope on front cleat. Dont forget to go under the rail first. Then lead it down the deck to your chosen position. Once rope is through the buoy. Reverse back as SWMBO walks along the deck. Easy. Hope youve got two engines! The tother way is to chuck SWMBO in Dinghy with one end of rope. Tother tied to boat. Obviously. Row to buoy then back to boat again. No need for smaller boat. Tutts does it all the time.

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Haydn

 

[paulineb]

"If I gave her one of those hooky things she'd only drop it in the drink!"

I take it Jane doesn't read the forum!!

..... it is still Jane isn't it?

joke!!!!!!



Pxx

 

[markc]

I hope its still Jane or there's some strange women cooking dinner in our kitchen!

No, I must admit that she has only dropped the boat hook in the drink once in the last 3 weeks....oh and 3 fenders!

M

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[tcm]

agree with al the others. Other ideas :

use bribery - get others in a dinghy or esp the harbour chappies and bung them a bottle of beer or a fiver or wotever.

- you can't sell the boat (for a smaller one) cos the market is crap at the moment.

- start ogling younger wimmin a bit.

 

[paulineb]

at least she hasn't left the boat hanging on the side as the lock waters dropped!

Pxx

 

[markc]

you know that picture.....

http://www.geocities.com/jinto100/Jintopics.html

 

[paulineb]

no no no no - i love you, you know that

Pxx

 

[hlb]

Oh dont start using bribery. Else all the rest of us will have to pay. Agrea tho. The harbour master chap is usually quite happy to come and help. Still if he's not around It's much better if you can do it easily ones self. Just one little point though. Make sure the boat does not try to turn round the wrong way or could lash SWMBO to the boat with rope and that would never do!!

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Haydn

 

[byron]

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[peterb]

Mooring from the side

Agreed it's much easier to pick up the mooring at the side rather than at the bow. But make sure it's the windward side, otherwise you may drift over the mooring (and could get things caught round props).

 

[adarcy]

Re: Help - the crew etc

Thanks to everyone

markc hlb and with due deference to the wind peterb
yes happy to do the alongside bit and rope BUT
the problem really blew up (ha ha) in Newtown of all places trying to hold her head near a buoy in a force 5. Can't see the buoy under the bow even from the flybridge when it is near enough to attack with a pole easily. Don't believe that tcm when he says bigger boats don't move about in the wind - when you're doing it blind it moves all right!

dickh - thanks but we have apontoon at "home" it's only an occasional problem when we are "away"

Trevethan - I know you will find this hard to believe but I have exhausted every known trick to try and get the others to have a go mooring or anchoring it. No honestly - maybe I make such a hash of it on occasions............

tcm and hlb - bribery to others - there never seems to be any other b****rs around when we have a bit of bother but then we spend a lot of time trying to get as far away from the madding crowds anyway.

BUT, I did say
<<Does anybody have any good experiences with one of those 'thread it through a ring on the end of a stick thingies' ?? - one we tried kept falling off>>

Has anybody got any successes ?

Thanks again

Anthony

 

[hlb]

Re: Help - the crew etc

Look. Stop arseing around and do as your told!!/forums/images/icons/shocked.gif
If you put the back end to the buoy, you can see the bloody buoy thing and no faffing about. Just get on with it!!/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[boatone]

Re: Help - the crew etc

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[simongoldthorpe]

Yep

I invested in a 'mooring mate', a fancy danbouy with a hook for the mooring rope on top. After years of struggling to get onto my swinging mooring in Poole harbour it works a treat. You have to use the right thickness of rope in the clip at the top, but it has turned my princess 315 into a single handed proposition because you can come alongside and grab the rope rather than having to always take it over the bow. The inventor/dealer was doing a deal on the price to get a few noticed around Poole, I think I paid about £90. Well worth it.